]]>58:28nofullEconomic Update: Capitalism's (Uncounted) Health CostsEconomic Update: Capitalism's (Uncounted) Health CostsThu, 07 Sep 2017 20:31:24 +0000Updates on Wonderwoman, Archbishop's critique of UK economic system, a US Labor Day comment, McDonald's workers strike in UK, economics of hurricanes, and economics of the Trump/GOP tax cut "reform." Interview Dr. Harriet Fraad: the capitalist system's impacts on health - from stress to death - are mostly unacknowledged or taken account of in its key decisions. ]]>Updates on Wonderwoman, Archbishop's critique of UK economic system, a US Labor Day comment, McDonald's workers strike in UK, economics of hurricanes, and economics of the Trump/GOP tax cut "reform." Interview Dr. Harriet Fraad: the capitalist system's impacts on health - from stress to death - are mostly unacknowledged or taken account of in its key decisions. ]]>58:28noUpdates on Wonderwoman, Archbishop's critique of UK economic system, a US Labor Day comment, McDonald's workers strike in UK, economics of hurricanes, and economics of the Trump/GOP tax cut "reform." Interview Dr. Harriet Fraad: the capitalist system's impacts on health - from stress to death - are mostly unacknowledged or taken account of in its key decisions. fullEconomic Update: A Tale of Two Crises: 1929 & 2008Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:17:24 +0000Updates on US working conditions 2017, looming US recession and plans for negative interest rates, schools raise funds by shaming poor school children, and the economics of fascism. Major discussion: why FDR's New Deal (successful trickle up economics) was not repeated after 2008 (unsuccessful trickle down economics). Consequences of post-1945 destruction of coalition that produced New Deal.]]>Updates on US working conditions 2017, looming US recession and plans for negative interest rates, schools raise funds by shaming poor school children, and the economics of fascism. Major discussion: why FDR's New Deal (successful trickle up economics) was not repeated after 2008 (unsuccessful trickle down economics). Consequences of post-1945 destruction of coalition that produced New Deal.]]>58:28no635fullEconomic Update: Human Rights v. US Water EconomicsThu, 24 Aug 2017 22:55:15 +0000

Updates on Trump vs Amazon over taxes, Americans dying younger, Monsanto profits at farmers' expense, and economics of homeless school children. SPECIAL GUEST: Activist Ron Robinson on US water crisis.

]]>58:28nofullEconomic Update: Economics as DeceptionThu, 17 Aug 2017 18:48:46 +0000Updates on how millennials have fallen behind their parents in income wealth, etc., on poor medical outcomes in US despite paying most for health (especially drugs), deepening scandals of German car corps, and why a Chinese t-shirt-maker investment in Arkansas teaches frightening economic lessons. Interview with Prof Michael Hudson on "Junk Economics."]]>Updates on how millennials have fallen behind their parents in income wealth, etc., on poor medical outcomes in US despite paying most for health (especially drugs), deepening scandals of German car corps, and why a Chinese t-shirt-maker investment in Arkansas teaches frightening economic lessons. Interview with Prof Michael Hudson on "Junk Economics."]]>58:28nofullEconomic Update: Faith and Labor Fight InequalityFri, 11 Aug 2017 19:20:24 +0000Updates on how golf courses are economically undemocratic, how US drug corps block much cheaper medicine imports, why US corps neither need nor deserve tax cuts, how Monsanto bought academic research to keep dangerous "Roundup" on the market, and the economics and politics of scapegoating immigrants in the US and Germany. Interview with Joerg Rieger and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger on their combination of faith and advocating for labor to undo inequality in the US.]]>Updates on how golf courses are economically undemocratic, how US drug corps block much cheaper medicine imports, why US corps neither need nor deserve tax cuts, how Monsanto bought academic research to keep dangerous "Roundup" on the market, and the economics and politics of scapegoating immigrants in the US and Germany. Interview with Joerg Rieger and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger on their combination of faith and advocating for labor to undo inequality in the US.]]>58:28nofullEconomic Update: Collective Action for ChangeEconomic Update: Collective Action for ChangeMon, 07 Aug 2017 16:30:06 +000058:28nonews,update,weekly,economics,economy,economicOn this week’s show Prof. Wolff provides updates on consumers’ battling airplane seat shrinkage, a “free” press and the purchase of the Chicago Sun Times newspaper, fake “jobs creation” proclamations for subsidies and publicity and a new museum featuring artists challenging capitalism.
GUEST: Dr. Harriet Fraad about how and why so many people wait so long before joining collective action to change economic and social conditions. fulldemocracyatwork.infoEconomic Update: Economics of SocialismThu, 27 Jul 2017 17:11:22 +0000Updates on Russia sanctions, medical companies' failures, cable company monopolies, CEO pay, battling Marxian economics in Utah. Major discussion of economics of socialism.]]>Updates on Russia sanctions, medical companies' failures, cable company monopolies, CEO pay, battling Marxian economics in Utah. Major discussion of economics of socialism.]]>58:28nofullEconomic Update: Economics Taught BadlyThu, 20 Jul 2017 23:12:18 +0000Updates on United Airlines' profits from customer abuse; bankster blames government; China's rapid economic growth; and worker coop news from Greece, New York, and Massachusetts. Interview with economics professor John Summa on big problems in economics teaching.]]>Updates on United Airlines' profits from customer abuse; bankster blames government; China's rapid economic growth; and worker coop news from Greece, New York, and Massachusetts. Interview with economics professor John Summa on big problems in economics teaching.]]>58:25cleanunited,economics,capitalism,airlines,coops,worker,profitsECONOMIC UPDATE: Capitalism's LeadersFri, 14 Jul 2017 00:08:01 +0000

Updates on Oklahoma cuts funds for public schools, why Americans dont take paid vacations owed them, how coal/oil companies fight solar/wind companies to buy politicians that decide what energy system we must live with. Interview with Lisa E Davis, author of "Undercover Girl" about undoing the New Deal, FBI paid informers and destruction of the CPUSA.

On this episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses Yale grad students hunger strike for a union, US raising interest rates on student loans, 2 new Senate bills on worker ownership of enterprises, and some economic dimensions of Mother's Day. On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff talks with French political activist, Antonin Plarier, on the meaning of the French presidential election.

]]>58:14noEconomic Update: Why Worker CoopsThu, 11 May 2017 19:41:31 +0000On this week's show, Prof. Richard Wolff presents updates on Australian government taxes, big banks funding of Dakota Access Pipeline, meaning of French elections, Trump/GOP's plan to end estate taxes, rising role of monopoly in US economy.

Prof. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, historian of worker coops and African-American community, joins Prof. Wolff in the second half to talk about "why worker coops" make sense.

On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff is joined by Dr. Harriet Fraad who talks about the contradictions of "family values" in the US economy.

]]>58:14noEconomic Update: Rising Costs of Capitalism's FailuresThu, 27 Apr 2017 20:29:38 +0000This week, Prof. Richard Wolff presents updates on courts blocking Trumps attack on sanctuary cities, selling Whole Foods, Jack Ma and blaming technology for jobs collapse, falling department store jobs since 2000, British queen's enterprise award to UK worker coop, Suma. On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff takes on Trump's corporate tax "reform," crisis as millions of new entrants into global job markets find too few jobs, SSDI crudely targeted by Trump budget director, populism as an elite-vs people formatting of elections.]]>58:14noEconomic Update: Enabling Worker CoopsThu, 20 Apr 2017 18:53:13 +0000On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Richard Wolff presents updates on capitalism and Earth Day, Chinese movie industry overtakes Hollywood, small businesses use cooperatives to compete better with big business. On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff is joined by Richard Bartlett, cofounder of Loomio, powerful software worker-coop facilitating collective decision-making.]]>58:14noEconomic Update: US Labor Unions: Past, Present, FutureThu, 13 Apr 2017 20:31:20 +0000On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about the United Airlines flier abuse, Cuomo's flawed tuition plan, what to do as self-drive vehicles end millions of jobs, how big investors plan to cash in on Trump infrastructure plans. On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff is joined by special guest Frank R. Annunziato who will discuss the tragedy of US labor unions today, why that tragedy happened, and how to reverse it.]]>On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about the United Airlines flier abuse, Cuomo's flawed tuition plan, what to do as self-drive vehicles end millions of jobs, how big investors plan to cash in on Trump infrastructure plans. On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff is joined by special guest Frank R. Annunziato who will discuss the tragedy of US labor unions today, why that tragedy happened, and how to reverse it.]]>58:14noEconomic Update: Economics, Psychology and TrumpThu, 06 Apr 2017 17:53:39 +0000On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Richard Wolff presents updates on Citibank says it favors the rich, French presidential elections, US college admissions favor the rich, injustice of US property tax system. In the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff is joined by Dr. Harriet Fraad who will talk about the economic and psychological causes of Trump's election and Trump's performance to date.]]>58:14noEconomic Update: Capitalism in TroubleThu, 30 Mar 2017 16:21:44 +0000On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Richard Wolff presents updates on major troubles (Brexit, Trump, etc.), student debt penalty, New York billionaires ask to be taxed, Trump's job fantasies, Seattle's official renters commission, age discrimination. The second half of the show is dedicated to major discussions on (1) the economics of immigration, and (2) how worker coops differ from capitalist corporations on where and how to produce.]]>58:14noEconomic Update: Capitalism and DemocracyThu, 23 Mar 2017 16:58:50 +0000

]]>On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on US workers' productivity rising while wages flat since 2009, US corps evading taxes, Gallup Poll on poor US job picture, wealth of billionaires enough, if redistributed, to change global economic conditions, rising corp debt problem. Major discussions of (1) ways and means of providing capital to worker coops, and (2) why technical "progress" excites capitalists and worries workers: the problem is capitalism. ]]>58:14noEconomic Update: Economics and Red States: Arlie HochschildFri, 30 Sep 2016 02:40:22 +0000On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on Corbyn's victory in UK, Uber drivers unionize, state retirement systems sued for threatening pensions, hard facts about US medical insurance. Interview with Arlie Hochschild on new book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right and why she believes "bridges" between progressives and Tea Party folks are very possible.

]]>On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on Corbyn's victory in UK, Uber drivers unionize, state retirement systems sued for threatening pensions, hard facts about US medical insurance. Interview with Arlie Hochschild on new book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right and why she believes "bridges" between progressives and Tea Party folks are very possible. ]]>58:14noECONOMIC UPDATE: Higher Ed Class StrugglesFri, 23 Sep 2016 12:04:48 +0000"Updates on top Corp leaders and top govt officials as tight partners, British wages and Brexit, Goldman Sachs. Interview Prof Michael Pelias on Long Island Univ lockout of faculty."

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses "leaders" exposed by crises: Johnson in UK, Dimon in US. Stagnant incomes for most. Interview with Rob Robinson on conditions and prospects of African-Americans.